Archduke Anton of Austria
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Archduke Anton | |
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Born | Vienna, Empire of Austria | 20 March 1901
Died | 22 October 1987 Salzburg, State of Salzburg, Republic of Austria | (aged 86)
Burial | Cemetery on the Mondsee |
Spouse | |
Issue | Stefan Maria Ileana Alexandra Dominic Maria Magdalena Elisabeth |
House | Habsburg-Tuscany |
Father | Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria |
Mother | Infanta Blanca of Spain |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Archduke Anton of Austria (Anton Maria Franz Leopold Blanka Karl Joseph Ignaz Raphael Michael Margareta Nicetas von Habsburg-Lorraine; Vienna, 20 March 1901 – Salzburg, 22 October 1987) was a Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne[1] and an Archduke of Austria by birth. In 1919, all titles of nobility and royalty were abolished and outlawed in Austria and Hungary.[2][3] He was the seventh of ten children born to Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany and Infanta Blanca of Spain, daughter of Carlos, Duke of Madrid.
Marriage and issue[]
After being introduced by King Carol II of Romania, he and Princess Ileana of Romania (1909-1991) were married in Sinaia on 26 July 1931.
They had the following children:
- Stefan (1932–1998), naturalized US citizen (1954), married Jerrine Soper (1931-2015) in 1954, with issue.[4]
- Maria Ileana (1933–1959), married Count Jaroslav Kottulinsky (1917-1959) in 1957, with issue.[citation needed]
- Alexandra (born 1935), married Eugen Eberhard, Duke of Würtenberg (born 1930) in 1962, divorced in 1972 and annulled at Rome in 1973, with no issue; married Baron Victor von Baillou (born 1931) in 1973, with no issue.[4]
- Dominic von Habsburg (born 1937), married Engel von Voss (1937-2010) in 1960 and divorced in 1999, with no issue; married Emmanuella Mlynarski (born 1948) in 1999, with issue.[4]
- Maria Magdalena (1939-2021), married Baron Hans Ulrich von Holzhausen (born 1929) in 1959,[4] with issue.
- Elisabeth (1942-2019), married Dr. Friedrich Sandhofer (born in 1934) in 1964,[4] with issue.
World War II and later life[]
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In the Second World War, he served until late 1944 in the German Wehrmacht as a pilot. After leaving the military, he moved to Bran, where he and his family lived in the Bran Castle. After the coup d'état, and the end of Romania's alliance with Germany on 23 August 1944, the family and their servants were in danger of being interned or thrown out of the country, as German citizens. It was only when King Michael I abdicated on 30 December 1947 and was forced to leave the country that Archduke Anton's family also went into exile. The family spent some time in Switzerland, then in Argentina, then lived in the early 1950s in the United States.
The marriage ended in divorce, made official on 29 May 1954. While Ileana became a nun, Archduke Anton moved to Austria, where he lived until his death in Emmerberg and in St. Lorenz am Mondsee in the Villa Minola. He died on 22 October 1987 at the age of 86. He was buried at the cemetery on the Mondsee.
Further reading[]
- Lost Waltz A Story Of Exile by Bertita Harding (1944).
Ancestry[]
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References[]
- ^ Mercedes Vázquez de Prada. L (2016) El final de una ilusión: Auge y declive del tradicionalismo carlista (1957‐1967).
- ^ "Law of April 3, 1919, on the referral from the state and the takeover of the assets of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine". Rechtsinformationssystems des Bundes.
- ^ Korom, Philipp; Dronkers, Jaap (2015). "Nobles among the Austrian economic elite in the early twenty-first century" (PDF). Nobilities in Europe in the Twentieth Century: Reconversion Strategies, Memory Culture and Elite Formation. Peeters. pp. 281–304.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Almanach de Gotha. 1 (190 ed.). London: Almanach de Gotha. 2013. pp. 65–67. ISBN 9780957519824.
External links[]
- House of Habsburg-Lorraine
- 1901 births
- 1987 deaths
- Nobility from Vienna
- German military personnel of World War II
- Navarrese titular monarchs
- Carlist pretenders to the Spanish throne